Research Assistant /
Research Coordinator and Manager for the DFG priority program "Jewish Cultural Heritage"  (SPP 2357)

Main Research Interests:
Contemporary Israeli literature and its German critical reception, Cultural Studies, Feminist Theory, Continental philosophy of the 20th century, Postcolonial Theory

E-Mail: Dr. Tom Kellner

• since 2023, research coordinator and manager for the DFG priority program "Jewish Cultural Heritage" at the European Center for Jewish Music.
• 2020-2022 Post-Doctoral researcher, The Department for Comparative Literature at The Institute for German Studies, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Research topic: Translating Israeliness – German Translations of Contemporary Israeli Prose from 1989 to 2019. Supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation (ref. 40.20.0.022SL).
• 2014-2019 Doctoral studies, The Department of Hebrew Literature, Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Dissertation topic: “Poetics and Ideology in Yoel Hoffmann's Works” (supervised by Prof. Hamutal Tzamir).
• 2015-2019 Guest researcher, The Department of Philosophy and Humanities, Freie Universität Berlin, Under the chair of Prof. Susanne Zepp.
• 2006-2011 M.A., The Department of Literature, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Thesis topic: “Between Conformism and Resistance in the Beat Generation and its Academic Discourse” (supervised by Dr. Orly Lubin). Summa Cum Laude.
• 2009-2015 Lecturer at the Open University, Israel.
• 2004-2007 Assistant Researcher at The Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics, under the chair of Prof. Ziva Ben-Porat.
• 2002-2005 B.A., The Department of Literature, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Magna Cum Laude.
• 2002–2004 Undergraduate studies, String Department (Cello, Supervisor: Prof. Hillel Zori), The Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Publications:

• "Between Conformism and Resistance: The American Beat Generation and Yoram Kaniuk", Hador: The Hebrew Annual of America (2015): 125–136. (Heb.)
• "When Translation Reshapes Reception: The Curious Case of Zeruya Shalev in the German Literary Sphere of World Literature", Arcadia: International Journal of Literary Culture 57, no. 2 (2022): 319–338.
• "Literature is a Secular Gift: Explicitness and Ambivalence in Curriculum Vitae and Moods by Yoel Hoffmann", Mikan: Journal for Hebrew and Israeli Literature and Culture Studies (forthcoming in 2024. Heb.).

Scientific Editing:

• A World Apart: Contemporary Israeli Women Cinema by Dr. Yael Munk (forthcoming in 2024).
• Yoram Kaniuk: Other than a Biography by Prof. Adia Mendelson-Maoz (Haifa University Press, forthcoming in 2024. Heb.).
• Excess Thought: Superfluity in Hebrew Literature by Prof. Hanna Soker-Schwager (Bar-Ilan University Press, Israel, 2022. Heb.).
• Borders, Territories and Ethics: Contemporary Hebrew Literature in Face of the Occupation by Prof. Adia Mendelson-Maoz (Purdue University Press, Indiana, 2017).

Translation (English to Hebrew):

• Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things by Dan Ariely (Zmora Bitan, forthcoming in 2024).
• Elon Musk: A Biography by Walter Isaacson (Zmora Bitan and Matar, 2023).

Translation (Hebrew to English):

• Borders, Territories and Ethics: Contemporary Hebrew Literature in Face of the Occupation by Prof. Adia Mendelson-Maoz (Magnes Press, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 2021).